Richard Aubin
Biography and approach of the artist
Already at the age of five, Richard Aubin was drawing with coloring pencils on scraps of paper that he found here and there. Throughout his primary, secondary and post-secondary studies, he sought every opportunity to indulge his passion, even visiting the Quebec Museum on his own on several occasions at the age of sixteen. After his studies in pedagogy destined for teaching, he devoted himself for more than thirty years to teaching visual arts to adolescents attending Beaurivage secondary school, (Saint-Agapit, Quebec).
At the beginning of the 1980s, alongside his career as a teacher, he began studying watercolor, discovering at the same time his fascination with the veil technique (flat superposition of several layers of colors). Fascinated by the lyricism of the works of Matisse, Miro, Kandisky, Klim, and the gestures of Georgia O'Keefe and Edward Munch, he devoted himself to the production of works favoring the automatist gesture as a starting point. Sometimes, he traces the main lines of his drawing in pencil, but most of the time, they are random gestures that he makes with a pencil or brush in the form of lines or spots of color. Stopping at the shapes then suggested, he continues the creation of his painting by superimposing several layers of transparent colors directing his light to the center of his painting a bit like Vermeer or Rembrandt, and developing it in an abstract or figurative. He likes to stop, observe his work, let it rest, even for several days, until a character appears, or a landscape, flowers, birds evoking dreamlike or poetic moments, lived or dreamed, in nature, in the mountains, in the forest, or by the sea. He loves beauty and poetry, those of nature and the beings around him, those he finds in novels and music , in lyrical, narrative and symbolic visual works.
The beginning of his career was marked by solo exhibitions in galleries in Cap-Rouge, Lévis and Montreal, and by Montreal Watercolor festivals (1984-1992). In the years 1994-2001, his production was concentrated in the creation of seven series of fifteen watercolors based on themes such as "the solitary messenger", "taking a child by the hand", "the impossible dream of Jacques Brel", "I planted an oak at the end of my field", etc...Participation in several painting symposiums, group exhibitions at the Tzara gallery (Quebec) (1999-2014), and in 2014, chosen in the cohort of 1000 winners among the 1690 applications presented, first stage of the first world watercolor competition.
His last solo exhibition dates back to November 2015 at the Maison de la Culture de l'Ancienne-Lorette (Québec) where 21 works were presented, including several mounted on canvas and with personalized framing.
His works can be found in the catalog of the 1st World Watercolor Competition (2014), in L'aquarelle au Québec, editions 1, 2 and 3, and in Éditions L'art vivant, Montréal (1985, 1986 and 1987). ).
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Biography and approach of the artist
Already at the age of five, Richard Aubin was drawing with coloring pencils on scraps of paper that he found here and there. Throughout his primary, secondary and post-secondary studies, he sought every opportunity to indulge his passion, even visiting the Quebec Museum on his own on several occasions at the age of sixteen. After his studies in pedagogy destined for teaching, he devoted himself for more than thirty years to teaching visual arts to adolescents attending Beaurivage secondary school, (Saint-Agapit, Quebec).
At the beginning of the 1980s, alongside his career as a teacher, he began studying watercolor, discovering at the same time his fascination with the veil technique (flat superposition of several layers of colors). Fascinated by the lyricism of the works of Matisse, Miro, Kandisky, Klim, and the gestures of Georgia O'Keefe and Edward Munch, he devoted himself to the production of works favoring the automatist gesture as a starting point. Sometimes, he traces the main lines of his drawing in pencil, but most of the time, they are random gestures that he makes with a pencil or brush in the form of lines or spots of color. Stopping at the shapes then suggested, he continues the creation of his painting by superimposing several layers of transparent colors directing his light to the center of his painting a bit like Vermeer or Rembrandt, and developing it in an abstract or figurative. He likes to stop, observe his work, let it rest, even for several days, until a character appears, or a landscape, flowers, birds evoking dreamlike or poetic moments, lived or dreamed, in nature, in the mountains, in the forest, or by the sea. He loves beauty and poetry, those of nature and the beings around him, those he finds in novels and music , in lyrical, narrative and symbolic visual works.
The beginning of his career was marked by solo exhibitions in galleries in Cap-Rouge, Lévis and Montreal, and by Montreal Watercolor festivals (1984-1992). In the years 1994-2001, his production was concentrated in the creation of seven series of fifteen watercolors based on themes such as "the solitary messenger", "taking a child by the hand", "the impossible dream of Jacques Brel", "I planted an oak at the end of my field", etc...Participation in several painting symposiums, group exhibitions at the Tzara gallery (Quebec) (1999-2014), and in 2014, chosen in the cohort of 1000 winners among the 1690 applications presented, first stage of the first world watercolor competition.
His last solo exhibition dates back to November 2015 at the Maison de la Culture de l'Ancienne-Lorette (Québec) where 21 works were presented, including several mounted on canvas and with personalized framing.
His works can be found in the catalog of the 1st World Watercolor Competition (2014), in L'aquarelle au Québec, editions 1, 2 and 3, and in Éditions L'art vivant, Montréal (1985, 1986 and 1987). ).
- Nationality: CANADA
- Date of birth : 1944
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- Groups: Contemporary Canadian Artists
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Education
2000 - 2006
Cours de peinture et perfectionnement avec Ève Cadieux, Sophie Privé, J. Duchesne à la maison Jaune
Québec,
QC,
Canada
1992 - 1999
Cours de dessin et peinture au Musée de Québec, cours en lien avec les expositions du Musée et donnés par différents professeurs
Québec,
QC,
Canada
1972 - 1999
Recherches personnelles en lien avec l'enseignement des arts aux adolescents et adolescentes d'une école secondaire (Beaurivage)
Saint-Agapit,
QC,
Canada
1992 - 1995
Cours de dessin et de peinture avec Jocelyne Duchesne (Les Ateliers Imagine)
Québec,
QC,
Canada
1982 - 1984
Cours d'aquarelle et perfectionnement avec Lorraine Bellerose (moulin des arts)
Lévis,
QC,
Canada
1962 - 1966
Etudes collégiales en arts plastiques (CEGEP Ste-Foy)
Québec,
QC,
Canada
1965 - 1966
cours de peinture avec Albert Soucy
Québec,
QC,
Canada
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merci a vous d'avoir sélectionné une de mes toiles dans vos favorites
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Quel plaisir de voir « ENDO QUAND TU ME TIENS» dans vos œuvres favorites en plus à coté d’une abstraction aussi puissante que « FLOWER RAIN AT DAWN » de Сергей Потапов
Merci pour votre choix de mon travail. Cordialement kloo
Amazing! Allee de la rose my favorite!
Merci SAHO. Thank you
Merci Di Nicacio, Gracias
Sincères encouragements et félicitations pour votre travail et l’ensemble de votre production, bravo.
Bonjour Richard,
Je suis éblouie par tes toiles. Elles reflètent la douceur. J'adore! C'est du pure bonheur! BRAVO
Michèle
Eh bien pour des automatismes , c'est franchement bien composé ! le graphisme est très intéressant et je pense qu'une réflexion sur la conception de vos œuvres est quand même utile ; quand à la couleur , elle est organisée dans une subtile variation de complémentaires ce qui ne gâche rien . Continuez cher ami peintre à nous offrir pour le plaisir des yeux une certaine plénitude intérieure .
Bonjour Richard Aubin , je viens de découvrir votre galerie . . . C'est un bonheur de s'y promener , une atmosphère poétique , douce , lumineuse . . . BRAVO à vous !!!!
Bravo pour ce que vous faites c est un vrai plaisir des yeux
Bonjour Richard!
Ton site est bien fait! J'ai pu contempler des œuvres dont je ne me souviens pas avoir déjà vu. Ta biographie est des plus intéressantes, ta démarche artistique est très bien « dépeinte » ;-) Vivement que plusieurs personnes puissent découvrir ton travail!
Gérard a raison , la lumière baigne la composition et les transparences accentuent l'effet vitrail . Bravo , c'est superbe !!!!
Très belle composition de ces formes enroulées , et une belle variations subtiles des couleurs . Bravo !!!!
Très belle couleur,sans le titre ,je voyais que des bateaux.Bravo!!! Merci pour mon moulin de Duval.
Des lignes , des couleurs douces . . . Très , très beau !!!!
Pour le spectateur , un enchantement !!!!
Effectivement SUPERBE !!! une lyre ? une voile ? le chant des sirènes ? le tout à la fois , dans un paysage de nuages . BRAVO .
Love the colors of your art.
Joli "vitrail", beau travail !
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